The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-06-23
TPIrR nEAEnnPAnY

The Topeka Journal, in speaking of
the flag business, says: "The demo-
Gratis who have ventured to express an
opinion say that they are glad that
Cleveland rescinded the order as it
would have undoubtedly injured the
party"
Yes, there is the whole secret of the
matter. Just so it would not hurt the
party they would not care continent
tai. In fact, were it not that it would
hurt the party and possibly arouse the
old war feeling to such an extent that
the nation would rise in its might and
hurl all traitors back to the seclusion
they so richly deserve, Cleveland
would never have rescinded his notori-
Gus and traitorous order.
1t is only by whining like whipped
ours through northern papers that the
democracy is able to delude the mug
wumps and other soft-hearted and soft
headed people into the magnanimity
racket, such as the weak-minded Hayes
promulgated and preached, while in
the south murder and outrage holds
high carnival on any and all occasions
where there is any likelihood of repub-
licanism gaining a foothold even for a
day. Yet these self-styled union men
associate and vote and affiliate with
these men who are known to have been
traitors when the country was in most
need of good men and true, because,
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But possibly this terribly thin excuse
of copperhead president for studied
insult to the men who risked their lives
for cause which he now says he loves,
but which never defended even so much
as by a word, may have the effect of
opening the eyes of some of these, not
wilfully wicked but deluded people,
who vote the democratic ticket to be
magnanimous.
For Cleveland, even in his fear, does
not say that he rescinds his order be-
cause it is right so to do, but merely
because, as he says, he has more care
fully looked over the law, and finds
that he has no authority for his action.
But this would hc nu bar to his en-
iOlcing the order were he not trembling
in his boots at the storm of indigna-
tion he has aroused.
Democracy has never allowed the
righteousness of a cause to stand as a
stumbling block in its path when its
ends were better observed by trampling
the right in the grourd.
On the other hand, the republican
party, ever since the time of Fremont,
its first standard bearer, has always
champiOned the right on every ques-
ton, and the democratic party has ever
been following just behind, and each
year copying the platform and cham
pioning the causes which they had OPP
posed the year previous when used as
republican ammunition, in hopes of
sometime gaining victory.
And to-day the loudest and most bla-
tant shouter of his love for the union
is the same man who most heartily can
curse the Yankees, the abolitionlsts,
the niggers and universal suffrage. Be
cause, foTsooth, he has come to know
by hard-learned experience that the
union sentiment is possibly the strong
est sentiment in these United States.
That it is sentiment that, even dur
ing the late awful and cruel war, men,
like the martyrs of old for religions
sake died for with smile on their face,
and would not renOunce when life,
liberty and af1uence were put in the
scale with treason on the one side, and
torture, death and dishonor with union
ism were the choice on the other side.